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Brown had just driven 88 yds. in ten plays, Steve Curtin's two-yd. run with 1:53 remaining bringing the Bruins to within a single point of the Crimson...
Both offenses flailed around to little success until Brown got a big break midway through the third quarter. Connors fumbled at the Harvard 19 and, five plays later, Curtin bulled over from the seven...
...soon disappeared. A Connors fumble gave Brown the ball at the Harvard 19. The defense pushed the Bruins back to the 25 put a crucial pass interference call against cornerback Pete Coppinger on third-and-16 gave Brown a first down at the eight. One play later, halfback Steve Curtin lugged it over for a tie score...
...card and turn it in for the reward, where an IRS audit can strain a marriage to the breaking point, where a grandfather must move in with his daughter because grandma has decided that she is a lesbian. The riposte to this rich variety of nonsense is for Lange, Curtin and Saint James to stage a heist. They decide to make off with the day's receipts of a shopping center, which are being displayed in a huge plastic ball as a promotional stunt. There are reasonable suspense and good comic effect as the three nice women stumblingly rehearse...
...excuse for some hard but sympathetic observations of the way many people live now. Director Scheerer may not fully realize that; there is something unemphatic in his handling of material that needs to be sharper. The acting is good. Lange is hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds a pleasant grace note to an edgy, insinuating comedy...